Lot 79
Lot 79
A Cloisonné Vase decorated with flowers

ATTRIBUTED TO THE NAMIKAWA YASUYUKI STUDIO, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

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A Cloisonné Vase decorated with flowers

ATTRIBUTED TO THE NAMIKAWA YASUYUKI STUDIO, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

Price Realised GBP 2,375
Price Realised GBP 2,375
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A Cloisonné Vase decorated with flowers
Attributed to the Namikawa Yasuyuki studio, Meiji period (late 19th century)
The copper-gilt body inlaid in brass wire and various coloured cloisonné enamels including speckled green and orange with rounded vertical panels overlaid with blossoms and stylised floral roundels, some containing goldstone, the shoulder, cover and area above the root with stylised flowers and leaves against pale yellow enamel, finial in the form of a chrysanthemum flower
10.7cm. high
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Lot Essay

For a vase with similar decoration in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Museum number FE.50:1 to 3-2011,
go to http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1192971/vase-namikawa-yasuyuki/

See Gregory Irvine, Japanese Cloisonne: The Seven Treasures, (Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2006), p.94.


With the rapid development of Japanese cloisonné in the 1870s and 80s, the work of Namikawa Yasuyuki (1845-1927) in particular exemplifies its highest artistic and technical development. Around 1878 or 1879 Namikawa met the German chemist Gottfried Wagener (1831-1892) with whose knowledge of ceramic pigmentation he was able to develop and refine his glazes in colour and texture to make both transparent and opaque glazes of faultless clarity. He took great care over his compositions and varied the standard motifs so that each piece was unique and with its own charm and character.

Namikawa won prizes at the Philadelphia World Fair of 1876, and then at the Paris World Fair of 1878, and later at the 1889 Paris Fair. He was also honoured at the series of National Industrial Expositions which was instituted in 1877. He won altogether 31 prizes at expositions both at home and abroad.

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